Top 5 Team Bonuses in AoE2
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- Always feel like you have nothing to contribute to the team? These civilizations can help with that!
1:00 #5 Knowing where your enemies are
2:20 #4 More housing cap
3:10 #3 Better farms
5:10 #2 Better scouting
6:40 Honorable Mentions: Onager range, extra knight attack vs archers, conversion resistance, faster working stables.
9:00 #1
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"There's nothing like team games to both build and destroy friendships"
*shows Onagers teamkills Eagle Warriors*
That destroyed me xd
@@xarkey7865 I think it destroyed THEM a bit more
friendship destroyed
me back as a kid. i wanna get all relics.
friend: o well i took 2 out of 5
me: i now have 4 out of 5.
friend: nice.... wait hold up. true story he got mad pissed i stole his relics xD but i told him i will donate you the gold you would of made. and as teutons i had better defense.
@@miciso666 how did u steal his relic?
That Saracens cat in the intro.. Lol
I chuckled really hard when I saw that one
😂
I clicked on the video for Saracens meme.
Saracen, Britons and Mayans unite in the same game for the best meme dream team
"I need to get to bed-"
**Top 5 Team Bonuses in AoE2**
"I have more important matters to attend to."
in dont need sleep... i need ANSWERS
Love that you still continue the elephant facts.
Elephacts
@@militaruandrei8086 sounds like Persian and Byzantine unique units had a baby
Elephract?
1:02 He really finds every possible way to take a jab at Saracens.. Lol
@STORM LORD ahahahaha i agree. It doesn't make that much of an impact
@STORM LORD It is still possible to make that bonus work. Pick Mayans as your teammate, full wall like a puny, honourless scum and continuosly dump all of your res to your ally. Mayans can steamroll everything alone if they strike fast and hard.
Incas, on the other hand have an absolute rubbish farce of a "bonus" which only messes up the build orders as farms seed faster than Horse Collar coming in.
@STORM LORD Actually, no. The saracen team bonus is situational, but it can win games. People just misunderstand it. It doesn't turn your archers into siege units, but it helps them break through walls in feudal and early castle. That can make a massive difference.
There are definitely several team bonuses worse than Saracens (Magyars, Ethiopians, Incas, Berbers...). Saracen is somewhere in the middle.
Jineapple You really don’t like Genitours?
@@martytu20 Genitours are actually meant to be used by Berbers in 1v1. Not much use in team games. Perhaps you can use Incan Genitours to raid, idk.
When I play versus the AI, I'll choose the Teutons as my ally to lengthen conversion time. It really helps against the godly micro of the AI monks.
The unique tech of the Spanish (Inquisition) eliminates that bonus.
I know n1 from the go: Sarracens
TBF, That can help archer civs a lot if the player wants to try and mainline archers. Particularly Chu-Ko-Nu. That might only be a +1 vs. Buildings but that can add up quickly.
@@KatherineFtw only works on the first arrow
@@rupert7565 It works really well for mayans tho.
Only mayans
Saracens bonus is pretty situational, but it's not necessarily a very bad one. Vietnamese's real team bonus is probably worst as a team bonus (not a regular bonus), because you absolutely never make Skirms in imp. If you're forced to build skirms in imp, you pretty much already are in such a dire situation that you're about to lose. Still, it may be useful in 1v1. Incas' however is utterly useless. +0.5% farming thanks to faster building farms is crap.
@Jan Sitkowski Look at any pro-game, and come back tell me there was elite skirms done in imp for a good reason. In a teamgame, the answer to archers are onagers and heavy cavalry, never skirms.
Should read “top team bonuses besides Saracens”
In Deathmatch, the Slavs' team bonus is even stronger
That's where Huns become overpowered in open maps in DM.
Some team in Arena play chinese teuton and slav, and teuton reseed farms for others.
8:07 Most important part of the video, you came for this
Oh I'm glad this was relooked at.
Saracens should really be #1 now.
"[...]koreans, who in age of kings [...]"
no
not really
good point lol
_Koreans?_ Who are they? -Emperor of China
Anolaana Seranaar the vassals in the Northeast
@@nkl7345 And according to the Koreans in the 1600s, dutiful son compare to the treacherous son Japan
The Spanish have the most consistent team bonus and can work well with just about all other civilizations in AOE2.
Of course they would be 1st.
Aztecs 33% faster relic gold production is also very good team bonus.
Your intro is great but i also really like the music played during no.1 in all these ranking videos. Its a like fun and cool track and love how it transitions from the regular soundtrack that you use.
I think I am looking for that song for over a year now. I do not seem to find it on the website in the description. If anyone knows, please help!
I still cant stop hearing "Spirit of the La Hire" in your intros. You have forever done this to me.
I love your intro music bro!!
(And the rest of your content too of course!)
I really like how you make your videos. The things like the cat at the beginning, the elephant facts or the way the scouts run over the number of explored tiles. ALl that isn't much but ads a lot of entertaining to the videos.
Thanks for making such useful vids. Gives an insight in which civ to pick in team games.
Hey SOTL!! nice video again, love all your creativity you put in them! I've noticed that in the elephants facts, your missing a letter *closest* and it's just a reason to say Dewgong is really cool! take care, luv from Montreal,QC,Ca
Berbers need an honorable mention. Their castle age unique tech make the castles on your team work 25% faster. Which if your in a team game where gold is less of an issue means your pumping out some of your best units faster and getting trebuchets faster.
Mongol and Vietnamese combo now sounds scary for scouts...
Mongol and Portuguese actually is a great combo
That's fucking laming combo. You use it to steal enemy sheep and boars. Kill any distant villagers without loom.
I love your videos, from intro to outro everythings great 10/10 would subscribe again
One does not simply not instantly watch a Spirit of the La Hire video as soon as he sees it
But what if the best team bonus is all the friends we made along the way?
Excuse me this bout of unoriginality, it just fits all to well.
Never thought an Indian girl would also be playing AoE2
Lol
There are lots of Slav boys named Nikita.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition
Trade bonus* xD
in a 9x tech game... hehe... no they don't
look forward to the worst 5 team bonus =)
#1 saracens
#2-5 everybody else
Mayans, Incas, Indians, Magyars, Ethiopians and Khmers are strong contenders in my opinion.
@@Morbacounet Mayans? Mayans have top tier team bonus.
@@Morbacounet i think the first four aren't too bad. seem only Ethiopians have a chance to beat Saracens..
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for the worst team bouns =^)
@@kingseirios4277 Saracen team bonus is definitely not among the worst 5. It can be quite valuable to break through walls in feudal/early castle, which can swing entire games. People just misunderstand it. Ethiopians, Magyars, Malay, Incas, Franks are definitely worse just off the top of my head.
That saracens cat :€
Been missing this so much. Hope Saracens will be featured, we all know how strong their TB is :3
After binge watching all your videos. It’s hard waiting every week for the next one.
Yay spirit of the LAW!!!! LOVE YOUR VIDEOS. Love the music
Intro L O C A T E D !
Yay, the intro is back!
Great video, keep up the great work.
I agree with all of them but I would change Vietnamese with Portuguese. Free carto without market and from dark age I think it's more powerfull than knowing enemies' positions
A lot of black forest games already comes with allied vision plus the allied vision mod is used across some games already, so the team bonus becomes nothing
Top 5 best team bonuses
Saracens: *silently crying themselves to sleep*
Hidden combo... chuko nu and Saracens ... now THAT is building destructive
@@perrymeril yeah I've been thinking about that but I don't know if the 2 penetration would just be for the first arrow
@@Dr_Weirdoo It only affects the first arrow indeed. But the saracen tb is good enough without it, it can actually be quite valuable to help break through walls in feudal/early castle.
Elephants facts
I really apreciate your jokes. I would love a quick video with your favorite "epidemicsongs", would be grate because i really like your choises on thouse ones xd
"You could say the extra food has really grown on me" yes daddy
Truly a dad joke.
I was waiting for the Aztecs, waiting, waiting, then wondering why they didn't even get an honourable mention...
Then I remembered that was Aztec only, not allies. Derp.
If you're referring to 33% more Relic income, that *is* their team bonus. Then again, a maximum of 200 gold per minute for the team (since the base rate is 30, Aztecs raise it to 40 and there are 5 relics on a map) isn't very enticing for team games given the availability of trade. It's admittedly of greater value in a 1v1.
Those memes are nice. Goodjob Spirit of the Law
Also, with the Mongol bunos your scout is less likely to run into TC fire.
I'm sort of surprised you didn't mention the Berbers. They have a unique mounted skirmisher, which has it's uses. But they also have that technology that increases castle production speed for the entire team. There are a lot of fantastic unique units where their one major downside is they just take too long to mass.
Genitours are a nice unit, but mostly useless in a team game because you don't want to be making many trash units anyway. And the 25% castle speed is nice, but not up at the top.
Really good video, thanks
HE PROTECC.
HE ATACC.
But most importantly...
*SPIRIT OF THE LAW INTRO IS BACC!*
Gotta say, never been to a spirit video that had no views and 0 comments when I got here...
Finally saw a sotl video 1 minute within upload!
Elephant fact is at 8:06
I thought #1 is going to be Saracens.. oh wait
After you set the parameters, I knew Spanish and Chinese would be on this list.
Just clicked the video. Betting beforehand that there will be Saracens jokes. Do not disappoint!
I think there is one team bonus that you overlooked, it's the Portuguese free cartography from Dark Age. I would argue it's probably second only to the Spanish team bonus (obviously the strongest in the game), and definitely way ahead of the Vietnamese team bonus. The vietnamese bonus is only situational and requires a lot more communication from the players (which is not bad in itself), and only comes handy in the very early game. Meanwhile, having free cartography from Dark Age is super useful to take better fights together (you can see each other so you don't even need to be perfect communicators), synchronize scouting, and save up on the market before the later stages of the Castle Age.
Doing Stable + Market up as a pocket player has been popular at high level for a while, a testament on the importance of having cartography to avoid taking bad fights. Being able to save the wood on the market is yet another plus of the Portuguese team bonus as your early boom in Castle Age will hence be slightly faster.
That cat meme in the intro got me so good lol
starting carto of Portuguese allows to make early team wall and shared scouting of the map including enemy locations. can even orchestrate a dark age scout rush in enemy flank together. all the while the team without Portuguese needs constant flarings and chats still get to feudal then market up to get to the free carto. they also ends up with individual or unnecessary and faulty suboptimal wallings till then.
true! all SOTL said about Vietnamese reveal pos bonus applies more to Portuguese
0:10 yeah. I'm a 100% noob or maybe it's just that it was my first game in AOE2 DE ever and i havent been playing AOE2 for a long long time (however i was always watching your videos) :)
So i was playing 3vs3 and got destroyed quite fast, and i was left with 1 unit - starting scout so i started to patrol map with it, atacking some enemies structures and running away (to make them dissoriented) a few times i warned my teammates about goths building many barracks next to their (my allies) bases etc. So bassicly we won and i was so happy when my teammates thanked me for all that information because "it saved us" :)
Everyone, remember, never give up in team matches when your teammates are still fighting
A nice video.
Spanish still º1 and we got another elphant fact. :)
You should make 2 videos with top 5: "Easiest" Civilization and Top 5 "Most complicated" civilizations! Would make a good addition for newer players :)
Hi Spirit of the Law. Question for a video I'd love to see: if you made AoE2, what balance changes would you make for competitive games? How aggressive would you be? Personally I think upgrades to ubiquitous units like bloodlines, squires, and loom are too good.
In the Montezuma campaign, in the level called Quetzalcoatl, is there a way to save your ally. I have tried so many times but failed. Could you try because you are a better player than I am (and probably smarter.)
You cant, they resign even when you finish the mission before they get destroyed. Trust me, I speedrun whole montezuma campaign
@@Zysku23456 is there a way to stop them from resigning?
@@dawidgrubba3447 Edit the map :V
blackdeath rofl
mixing scouts to mangudai rushs is great to see when pikemen are coming
I would like spirit of the law to upload videos of basic build orders, knight rush, drush, trush, booming, etc
I cant even pass a second it really enjoys me and just about time.
Hmm, it could be just me but I smell the Hun civ overview (Redone version) coming up next. :))
I'm a normal guy, i see a Spirit Of The Law video, i click
Now that i think about it in a 4vs4 game knowing each enemy location can justify and maybe even unlock deer-pushing for all your team. As the time saved scouting mindlessly would be used to would deer. And scout enemy after as you will get to them in a min knowing yheir locations
Please do Top 5 or Top 10... well Top N overpowered civs using Full Tech Tree. I've done some research using my slightly outdated version of game. So I would gladly share what I've found out. I think it would be a good topic for a video.
Nice video by the way :)
allways good videos .
That elephant fact was funny :)
All of this is true .... assuming you are limited to land maps.
*Viking Horn*
@Hoàng Nguyên you're pretty much always better off building a dock than not as it works like having a second dark age TC. You see it even on BF. If you've got >2 shore fish a dark age dock is worth it and saving wood on that is a good bonus. On team water maps like islands or team islands the viking dock bonus between two equal teams will often decide the game. It was the only team bonus other than the Spanish that was reduced in the kingdoms balance patch.
Hey, watching you for a while now, I have a request: A video with only the Ontage playing
GREAT video, this is what I wished to discuss, in fact 10 days ago I was in the Steam forums, discussing this team bonus thing..., So,, there was a guy who claims THE SARACENS bonus is cool, I disagreed with him then, I really hate the SARA bonus. It sucks.
Spirit, what do you think of the Bulgarian team bonus which is gonna be blacksmith working 50% faster for the entire team? I honestly expect to see from you if you'll review the new Definitive Edition civs with no patience.
The cats in the intro 😂😂🤣
Definitely had the Persians in my top 3
i love the elephant facts
I'm not sure I would rank the Huns bonus higher than other +20% production, if only because it's the only one that is literally useless to certain teammates.
I think the combined effect of paper money, the imperial skirmisher, and seeing where your enemies are should have bumped the Vietnamese up a bit. It's like they made that civilization super weak in the early game and balanced it out with team bonuses.
Surprised the Berbers didn't get an honorable mention for their Genatoir and faster castle operations.
See, complain enough and Elephant Facts return.
Now for the next question. Which team bonuses synergize best for 2v2 or 3v3 games?
Whi are the best team bonus civ combination? This could be an idea for your next video. For example 4 players with 4 civs, to have the best infantry
Could you make a video on strategies and combat?
The song at the end is awesome. What song is it?
Back in the day Spanish was considered number three. The Mongol bonus smooths out the opening by reducing the chance you'll take too long to find your sheep. The Chinese bonus kicks in as soon as your first farms would have expired. The Spanish bonus was strong, but while gold piles are still available trade carts were still not as good as villagers so it isn't really doing a lot until gold starts to run out and having an early advantage to snowball with was considered better.
@El Bottoo It is possible that the map gen scripts have changed to have less wood, but in the gaming zone era people weren't worried about wood running out. Spending less pop space on keeping gold units in the field instead of trash was more important.
Just curious: How do you approach battle? Do you put all champions on hotkey 1, arbalest on hotkey 2, etc. Or do you have 5 champions, 5 arbalest and 5 paladins on 1, same on 2 and so forth? Or it all depends on what strategy you're using? :)
Have you done a top 5 turtle / defensive civs?
This is why the Spanish are one of my favorite civs, especially on team games.
@SOTL those the Persian team bonus apply to knights only or also to cavalier and palas?
After seeing the most recent SotL video about Saracen, I shed a tear seeing the dead meme for Saracen.
You will be missed, Saracen Team Bonus joke.
Their team bonus is still as bad as always, only the Saracens Player get the +3 on his/her Archers/Cavalry Archers (+4 with Team bonus)
The team only get the +1, wich is really only usefull for Mayans as cherry on top or the Chinese, because of their unique unit
I love the Dark age Cartography bonus Portuguese have
Can you do a ranking of unique units?? Please and thank you
So if you did a team game, 4v4, what 4 civs would make the best to combo in terms of their individual strengths and their team bonuses?
I would say Slavs (for sure), Goths, Celts (flank) and Ethiopians (flank).
4 times teutons
TheNewMaxico man of culture
Here's an interesting one in terms of team bonus synergy.
Huns + Britons + Indians + Saracens(yes, it has Saracens in it).
Huns team bonus helps Indians(and Saracens), Indians team bonus helps Saracens, Saracens team bonus helps Britons and Britons team bonus helps Huns.
Huns go Cav Archers, Britons go Xbow and the other two go Camels. Briton archers with Indian Camels will easily bust through walls and create havoc.
In general, map matters more than civ matchups in isolation. Still, Chinese, Spanish, Indians and Mongols seems pretty strong. Trade bonus, farm bonus, Chu-ko-nus, Imperial Camels, Elite Mangudai, fast SO, bombard towers, and Paladins.
The funny thing is, the saracens team bonus is actually considered to be one of the best, by pros. Allows a group of crossbows to *Easily* bypass pallisade walls, in no time. Very dangerous. They also play on very open maps, which makes investing into stone walls to be generally considered very expensive, and something you want to avoid.
Aztec relic bonus man!
yea
First attack. I just finished with my video, too.
Spirit of the log
How exciting, my boss just gave me a bonus!
*opens envelope*
'your stables work 20% faster'
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4:54 wouldnt the reseed happen at approx 22:00 since the team bonus has already applied to the first round as well?
I bet this has been revealed before, but is SotL from Massachusetts?
Lot (lawt), shot (shawt), etc.
Can you make a video for building placement and walling?
Can you make a top 5 unique techs?
Would you be able to make videos in CA? are you having any input with the development of that program?